“The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.”

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The law is a horrible business.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Start Shaky. Start unsure. Start scared. You are writing a brave beginning to this chapter.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

Life is a miracle. Life is sacred. And when women carry life, we get to become the keepers of some of the Universe’s greatest secrets: beginnings.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

My freedom doesn’t end where your fear begins.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.